Monthly Archives: June 2011

The apocalypse starts in Vietnam where super suave John Saxon is bitten by a P.O.W. that he is sent to rescue who, apparently, is infected with some sort of cannibal virus. Skip ahead a little, back in the ole USA, and J-Sax wakes up from a nightmare of whathappened back in the jungle. Next thing we know, the P.O.W. (Morghen) that bit Johnny has turned cannibal and barricades himself in a department store, picking off street-punks with a shotgun. The cannibal virus continues to spread, but will Saxon’s handsomeness be able to stop it?!? Continue reading →

About the only law that I think relates to the genre
is that you should not try to explain, to find neat
explanations for what happens, and that the object of
the thing is to produce a sense of the uncanny. Freud
in his essay on the uncanny wrote that the sense of
the uncanny is the only emotion which is more powerfully
expressed in art than in life, which I found very
illuminating; it didn't help writing the screen-play,
but I think it's an interesting insight into the genre.
And I read an essay by the great master H.P. Lovecraft
where he said that you should never attempt to explain
what happens, as long as what happens stimulates people's
imagination, their sense of the uncanny, their sense of
anxiety and fear. And as long as it doesn't, within itself,
have any obvious inner contradictions, it is just a matter
of, as it were, building on the imagination (imaginary
ideas, surprises, etc.), working in this area of feeling.
Stanley Kubrick, "El Pais Artes" (1980)